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16-AUG-2010

Great and Double-Crested Cormorants with a Great Black-Backed Gull

Île-Bonaventure, Gaspésie, Quebec

Great cormorants (the winter cormorant around Boston) are fatter than gannets at 7.2 lbs (vs. 6.6 for gannets), but have a three-foot wingspan instead of a six-foot one. There's a great cormorant in the center of the photo. The more common double-crested cormorants have a similar wingspan at 33 inches, but weigh only 3.7 pounds.

Great black-backed gulls are pretty big too - 65-inch wingspan and 3.6 pounds. This one's a juvenile.

Nikon D700
1/1000s f/6.3 at 500.0mm iso250 full exif

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